How to format your references using the Food Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Policy. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Knoepfler, P., 2009. Journal club. A cell biologist looks at the risk and promise of a new insight into stem cells and cancer. Nature 457, 361.

A journal article with 2 authors

Litchinitser, N.M., Sun, J., 2015. APPLIED OPTICS. Optical meta-atoms: Going nonlinear. Science 350, 1033–1034.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chisholm, M.F., Kumar, S., Hazzledine, P., 2005. Dislocations in complex materials. Science 307, 701–703.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mainland, J.D., Bremner, E.A., Young, N., Johnson, B.N., Khan, R.M., Bensafi, M., Sobel, N., 2002. Olfactory plasticity: one nostril knows what the other learns. Nature 419, 802.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Padgett, S., 2014. Profiling the Fraudster. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Larouche, P., Cserne, P. (Eds.), 2013. National Legal Systems and Globalization: New Role, Continuing Relevance. T. M. C. Asser Press, The Hague, The Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Balık, E., 2015. Robotic and Patient Positioning, Instrumentation, and Trocar Placement, in: Ross, H., Lee, S., Champagne, B.J., Pigazzi, A., Rivadeneira, D.E. (Eds.), Robotic Approaches to Colorectal Surgery. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 57–66.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Food Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Superpod Of More Than 1,000 Dolphins Spotted Off The Coast Of California [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 1999. Satellite Control Systems: Opportunity for DOD to Implement Space Policy and Integrate Capabilities (No. NSIAD-99-81). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Sammons, J.L., 2012. Perceived benefits of and barriers to physical exercise in people with severe mental illness (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Williams, J., 2017. A Change Means a Challenge. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Knoepfler, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Knoepfler, 2009; Litchinitser and Sun, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Litchinitser and Sun, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Mainland et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Policy
Abbreviation	Food Policy
ISSN (print)	0306-9192
Scope	Food Science Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Development Sociology and Political Science